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The growing numbers of elderly individuals in need of support to live in the community will severely test the current services infrastructure. Part of the answer is to develop technological innovations that allow an elder population to successfully “age in place” with dignity and a sense of involvement with their community. However, we believe that it is essential to understand the needs of the target community through interdisciplinary perspectives of social science and computer science in partnership with potential elderly recipients of the technology themselves. Our team of researchers brings together social scientists and geriatric social work practitioners from Smith College and computer scientists who have expertise in computer vision, robotics, augmented and virtual reality, and intelligent user interfaces from the University of Massachussetts and Mitsubishi Electrical Research Laboratory (MERL).